Definitions Quote by Donald Knuth Download Open image “I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.” — Donald Knuth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Definitions Expression Roof Unix
“Besides directory paths on Windows, raw strings are also commonly used for regular expressions” — Mark Lutz Copy Share Image
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX, — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. — Douglas Gwyn Copy Share Image
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
“UNIX. Understanding the meagerly documented, demanding, and complex sources of” — Mauerer, Wolfgang Copy Share Image
“Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic:… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase "of course" or its equivalent.” — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if… — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul… — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,… — James Madison Copy Share Image